A mythological giant that looks like it's made of flesh and bone but its bones are stronger than steel and its flesh burns many times hotter than a forge (because it has to process enough energy to move a mass many times the size of a human) without catching fire Like Godzilla
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Replying to @arthur_affect @CascadianGrimd1 and
You can change the proportions though, or give up things like speed in exchange for size. Or try to move around some of the weight.
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Replying to @mssilverstein @arthur_affect and
Supporting all the weight is another issue, yeah. This is part of why tanks and bulldozers and such have tracks instead of wheels. They need to spread their weight over a proportionally greater area, or they'll bog down constantly
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Replying to @CascadianGrimd1 @mssilverstein and
It's another big issue with the concept of bipedal mecha. At the sizes most of them are depicted as, even just regular steps should be putting their feet well into the ground. Even on pavement or stone. Something like the climax of LoK, Kuvira's mech should have sunk instantly
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Replying to @CascadianGrimd1 @mssilverstein and
Right, it's not just that the magic that "compensates for the square-cube law" means the molecules that make up the thing itself have to behave differently, it has to affect everything that object interacts with
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Replying to @arthur_affect @CascadianGrimd1 and
Basically scenes that "violate the square cube law" have things interact in a way that's fundamentally contradictory Godzilla crunches buildings like cardboard (because that's what they are) while the pavement and earth he's standing on still acts solid as ever
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Replying to @arthur_affect @CascadianGrimd1 and
It's like Superman violating the square cube law in his own small way when he does stuff like lift a car You can pick up a tiny toy car by its bumper just fine A real full size car will have the bumper tear off
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Replying to @arthur_affect @CascadianGrimd1 and
now i'm imagining superman being careful to line up his fingers with the jack points before lifting a car [iirc officially his body projects a structural integrity field to things he's holding, which is also why his clothes are immune to bullets]
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Replying to @Random832 @arthur_affect and
my favorite example of this is in Superman (1978) where he catches, and then carries, a falling helicopter by one of its skids
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Replying to @Random832 @arthur_affect and
like it's not actually like there's a *good* place for him to catch a helicopter by, his hand would punch right through it - but being so off-center means the forces involved are so much more because now the weight of the rest of the helicopter has *leverage*.
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Yeah I mean his telekinetic field is basically text in that movie Lois clings to him for dear life when they're flying and he encourages her to let go and just hold hands with him, which causes her to fly cheerfully by his side as though she also had superpowers
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